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The DEA lost 91 guns and 231 laptops. And no one can guarantee that the laptops didn't contain info best kept secret: the agency only began encrypting their contents in 2005.
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Does that include Agent Glock-Fohty?
Of course not, Flighterdoc. He is a "professional".
security is largely comprised of human elements: policy is number one (how parties agree things will be secured), and behavior is number two (whether the policy is violated). here's why.
once you lose a laptop, the software encryption you've used is meaningless -- you have to assume that anyone interested in your data has access to the necessary hardware and software to crack it.
only the algorithms that make feasibility difficult to achieve (i.e. anything that makes it take three months even on a supercomputer) are worth using... and maybe in reality they usually stay the attack long enough for recovery/interdiction... but does taking that chance sound like good security policy to you for your files? how about for the DEA's files?
Maybe they're selling those laptops to interested parties?
Where the Hell is the ATF on this deal? Seems to be a much higher willful error rate than they found at Red's. Of course, theirs is higher too. Must be one of those quid pro quo things.